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Kitchen Debate Redux

... the nostalgic, eternal return to that staple of the modern visual lexicon: the mid-century kitchen, complete with iconic 1950s housewife emerging to present a casserole to her adoring family seated at the table. The faded pastels, washed out background, and dinner table floating in a cloud of whiteness suggest an ethereal quality, interrupted only by the father’s black suit. He sits slightly...

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Moscow 1959

Nixon. Khrushchev. A kitchen debate. 50 years ago it was drama and great political theater. Give me six minutes of your time to watch this film. Great stuff. Smarten up, live and learn.

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Another Side of Safire

The late pundit should be remembered for his commitment to arts education, writes Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Like most Americans, I knew William Safire through his public biography: the "kitchen debate," the...

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Nixon speechwriter became admired columnist

WILLIAM SAFIRE, who has died aged 79 of pancreatic cancer, went from being the public relations man who set up Richard Nixon’s “kitchen debate” with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, to the first columnist on the (NYT) chosen for his conservative view, and then a much-loved grouch and language purist.

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Political Columnist William Safire Dies At 79

... client. A crush of reporters trapped Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The ensuing "kitchen debate" between the two drew international attention for the combative American politician — as well as plenty of headlines for the home builder. The former vice president, impressed, stayed in touch and Safire found himself writing speeches for Nixon's successful...

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William Safire Goes Home

... cancer, said Martin Tolchin, a friend of the family. There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism it was simpler: There was his own unambiguous wit and wisdom on one hand and, on the other, the blubber of fools he called “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.” He was...

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William Safire Dead at 79

Fitting, perhaps, that on Sunday William Safire followed his fellow conservative commentator and native New Yorker Irving Kristol into death. Mr. Safire was not the father of a movement like Mr. Kristol, but he was often the clever public voice, a reporter-turned-speechwriter with an eye toward playing the press. It was Mr. Safire, after all, who staged the Kitchen Debate between Nixon...

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Video: Ex-Nixon speechwriter, William Safire, dies at 79

Sept. 27: Among his many accomplishments, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” in Moscow. NBC’s Lester Holt reports. (Nightly News)

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William Safire Dead at 79

Speechwriter, journalist, political pundit and author William Safire has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He died in a hospice in Maryland. Safire, who was a speechwriter for President Nixon, wrote the On Language column for The New York Times for many years. The New York Times has the obituary: There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism...

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go-getter

He was a college dropout and proud of it, a public relations go-getter who set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” in Moscow, and a White House wordsmith in the tumultuous era of war in Vietnam, Nixon’s visit to China and the gathering storm of the Watergate scandal, which drove the president from office. go-getter n. Informal An enterprising person.

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William Safire, RIP

From the New York Times remembrance: (h/t - The Corner) He was a college dropout and proud of it, a public relations go-getter who set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” in Moscow, and a White House wordsmith in the tumultuous era of war in Vietnam, Nixon’s visit to China and the gathering storm of the [...]

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OBT: William Safire

... The cause was cancer, said his assistant, Rosemary Shields. There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism it was simpler: there was his own unambiguous wit and wisdom on one hand and, on the other, the blubber of fools he called “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.”...

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William Safire Dead at 79

... and proud of it, a public relations go-getter who set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” in Moscow, and a White House wordsmith in the tumultuous era of war in Vietnam, Nixon’s visit to China and the gathering storm of the Watergate scandal that drove the president from office. Then, from 1973 to 2005, Mr. Safire wrote his twice weekly “Essay”...

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William Safire -- 1929-2009

William Safire , the man who made Spiro Agnew and "nattering nabobs of negativism" household words has died. There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism it was simpler: there was his own unambiguous wit and wisdom on one hand and, on the other, the blubber of fools he called “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “hopeless,...

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re: Safire -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

From the New York Times remembrance: He was a college dropout and proud of it, a public relations go-getter who set up the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate” in Moscow, and a White House wordsmith in the tumultuous era of war in Vietnam, Nixon’s visit to China and the gathering storm of the Watergate scandal that drove the president from office. Then, from 1973...